My wife is the proud owner of a new iPad with Retina display (costing 2x my i5 laptop!!! ), and I have had the "pleasure" of setting it up. Anyway, I have now got to the bit where I tell it where my network printer lives so it can print documents. Except, it can't print documents to my network printer, as it isn't an "airPrint" compatible printer. So, whereas there are fully functional protocols for discovering and using printers over wifi networks, Apple have decided not to use them, but instead to invent their own. So no problem - "there's an app for that". No kidding! I have to pay for an app to enable printing from this device?!! Worse still, the ratings on most of the apps are not that good, and on the better ones I have downloaded, the printing capability doesn't seamlessly integrated with the system applications, but requires you to copy content to the clipboard, then switch to the printing app to print it out.

That, in my opinion, is unacceptable, and is why I have used Linux for the last 17 years and will continue to do so into the future.

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If anyone here has similar experiences, and can point me in the direction of seamlessly integrating a non-airPrint printer , I would be most grateful!

I can't believe that people are happy once they are given an application to run on their iMac which makes a printer attached to it to present as an airPrint printer. Roughly paraphrased: "Thanks for the amazing wonderful app that allows me to print on my printer while only needing an iMac powered up and running to manage printouts from my iPad - truly amazing..!"

I suppose at least the iPad part of the link is then working correctly

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Well, just do it the old-fashioned way and plug the USB printer cable into the iPad. Oh, wait...
So, then, tell your wife to send whatever she wants printed via email to you and you can print it for her from a real computer.

And now, just think for a moment, what kind of effort would be necessary for a simple task like printing if Apple products weren't so customer friendly..._________________Kali Ma
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